Re: code that could be improved

[Roland Illig <roland dot illig at gmx dot de>]

Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Roland Illig wrote:
> > - various quoting techniques: `foo', 'bar', "baz".
> >   => please use `foo' consistently
>
>
> Why that form?  'foo' is more correct for plain ASCII, unless and until we
> develop some system for proper quotes (and likewise proper copyright
> symbols) to be used when LC_MESSAGES=C if LC_CTYPE permits.  Translations
> should use (consistently) whatever form of quotes is linguistically
> correct for that language, as long as the character set supports it, and
> this is unlikely to be any of the ASCII forms.
>
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html

Well, that argument is nice. I just wondered about the various quoting 
techniques and had thought it would be best to stick to the old style.

Thanks for the link.

Roland